“[I]n the relevant respects, a fetus, even a fully developed one, is considerably less personlike than is the average mature mammal, indeed the average fish… [I]f the right to life is based upon [the unborn’s] resemblance to a person, then it cannot be said to have any more right to life then, let us say, newborn guppy.”
Mary Anne Warren, “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion,” Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, editors John Arras and Robert Hunt (Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, 1977) 172 – 173
